/ot/ - Off-topic

What's your opinion on the Discord server?

I had a chocolate milkshake for the first time ever. Pretty good, better than I expected. The taste was almost exactly like some ice cream I had lots of times before, but much better to have than it because you're simply sipping out of a straw instead of bothering with holding a cone and licking. My issue with chocolate drinks most of the time tend to be that the chocolate is too strong and leaves my mouth feeling bitter even, but none of that here. I'd get one of these every day if they weren't so expensive here.
I'll try a vanilla one soon.

Ever played any games with character customization and tried to recreate Madotsuki or any other Yummy Nickel characters? Not mine sadly but been playing Miitopia and this shit slaps fr

God this place is awful.
It is a nest of bpdemons and mentally ill fuckwads who put their disorders on a pedestal instead of getting checked.
The question is, what the hell am I doing here?

Do any of you guys know how to find friends online? I want to talk to someone while my days still pass by, but I don't know how… How can I find a social bubble online? I don't want to be alone anymore but it's so hard to find a place I feel welcomed in too. I just don't know anymore

I know this might sound edgy, but here I go anyway. I've been thinking about human predictability a lot lately. It seems to me that with a lot of things people seem to follow some kind of program, like their actions and words are automated and not their own. This is both on a day to day basis, and during unusual events. It's not just going through the motions, it's too exact. Let me use an inevitable event as an example: the death of Miyazaki. Thinking about this is actually what triggered this train of thought. When Miyazaki dies, I can already tell what will happen in far too exact detail. At first everybody will be in shock, but then they'll once again go into autopilot… Big news sites and tabloids alike will all publish the same article as each other about what a great man and inspiration he was and how he shaped the dreams of children and all of that white noise. People on social media will talk about they watched his movies as kids and how upset they are. Some people will make memorial videos on youtube talking about how great he was and they'll all go on and on like they're reading the same script, but slightly doctored to give the illusion of diversity. Ghibli will make a statement about it and maybe even make something in memorial to him. Right after that blip in time, it'll be gone and people will almost instantly snap back into their regular programming. That's it. It didn't even happen, and yet the feeling of it is already palpable. I wouldn't be too surprised if all of those articles were pre-written. My point is it's not like Ghibli will use their remaining funds to build a plane and kamikaze it into the United Nations head quarters. This example is just on the big scale, but I see it everywhere. Am I alone in this, or does anybody else feel it?

How many of you are free software commies who won't use software unless it's approved by the FSF?

What's going on with Lain lately? I remember a thread from a couple months ago talking about how lainchan died because some guy guessed the admin password and deleted everything for the hell of it. After that a new lainchan that looks way better was made. Where's that thread and what's the link to the new and improved lainchan? Also, what happened to tsuki and system space? Did anything happen on July 1st? Is tsuki dead? What the fucks going on people?

Did anyone else watch Gakkou Gurashi? People had a really mixed reaction to it, but I thought it was pretty good. Pretty depressing. Really didn't like the fan service episode, but it didn't ruin in for me.